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Which is a company that disperses the information. but that information then goes to rolls royce, it goes to boeing, it goes to the manufacturer from there. so to me the pings are very viable. it's what should be happening. what's confusing to me, two things that are confusing to me about that is that those pings that are coming off of there, why then is there not a transponder still on? that was turned off. that's the only explanation i would have. because if the electrical system failed to the extent where there's no communication, there's no satcom, no uhf, vhf, way for that pilot to commun...

Were pings coming from that location. now assuming that, i find it extremely difficult to think that somehow the system failed, that 777 is the most reliable aircraft in the air in my opinion. and to think that that whole system, the three buses that we have, the three generators, the backup generator which can be driven by air, that can power those avionics and those communication channels as well. so i believe that it was taken off by intent, that that aircraft was intentfully disabled from communication and that it has been flying. it makes sense to me that the pings are still occurring for...

Airport. the pilots aborted the takeoff when the airbus a 320 blew a tire and the nose gear collapsed. no one was injured. more on flight 370. this is cnn breaking news. >> this is "piers morgan live" tonight breaking news on flight 370. this time it's from the u.s. government. administration officials tell cnn's barbara starr there's quite significant likelihood the plane is on the bottom of the indian ocean. they also say there are indications the plane may have flown for hours longer than we thought. malaysian authorities report they have multiple pings of data that were transmitted from ...

Practice to bring that airplane that low in that kind of altitude to skirt around and go where he's going. let me quickly also say something about the pings. yes, absolutely right. i'm glad that somebody mentioned that. the ping is a sound that was designed to give you the indication that you have something underwater. the thing that we've been calling pings here today really are like text messages that come out of the acars system in a completely different kind of thing. i don't know why they call tha ping as a matter of fact. >> let me go to henry hughes, retired ntsb senior accident investi...

It makes sense to me that the pings are still occurring for one reason. if you're going to -- the average pilot would know how to disconnect all the communications equipment on that airplane except for one thing and that's the acars system. because there's a circuit breaker. when you pull the circuit breaker that says acars on it, it doesn't turn off the transmitter. it's like not turning off the wi-fi but turning off the computer. it stops the data stream from coming. it stops the computer which stores the data. but yet there's another circuit breaker that's much more hidden to turn off the a...